Feed news.com: Lunar rover flies, then falls (news.com)
Armadillo Aerospace is the lone competitor in NASA's $2 million Lunar Lander Challenge and it almost won some money Saturday.
Comment Re:Anyone using Linux/Oracle on standard PC (Score 5, Informative) 299
We have a sitewide license for Oracle, so the license cost wasn't an issue for the department, but hardware costs were.
We set up an unused desktop PC with a copy of Red Hat Advanced Server (P3 730Mhz, 512 Mb RAM) and it is running several databases in Oracle which compare favourably with our aging Sun boxes. What's more, because IDE drives are so cheap we got several huge disks and got reliability and speed extremely cheaply.
Well worth the try if the license cost is not a issue.
We set up an unused desktop PC with a copy of Red Hat Advanced Server (P3 730Mhz, 512 Mb RAM) and it is running several databases in Oracle which compare favourably with our aging Sun boxes. What's more, because IDE drives are so cheap we got several huge disks and got reliability and speed extremely cheaply.
Well worth the try if the license cost is not a issue.
